Economists paint a troubling picture for recent college graduates: underemployment is likely to continue, despite the continued economic recovery. Ben Casselman has details. Photo: AP Images.

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... the the ... he's Joinus ... again cos ... he ... has he's a nice cold today all on ... what's happening to the skilled what these people coming out of graduate school ... it seems ... it just does not lie in the jobs that without a promise ... so you'll see that the good this is this the destruction of so yes this is the thing we've known for quite awhile but a lot of college students that graduated from college are coming out I'm not getting the job they want to write their ending up in coffee shops or clerical job there and retail jobs ... the assumption has been that once the economy turned around that they would get the kind of college skilled jobs that they can help to get ... the Nelson new research that calls into question and that suggests that actually what we're looking at here is a longer term structural problem and that even as the economy rebounds ... a lot of people in the stock and those lower skilled jobs what what what does is tilted to the Biffle ... the incentive to go to college and is in some respects it seems like all was time ... wasted ... well what's interesting though is that he is still absolutely you're hearing a better position if you have gone to college right those those people who are working in a coffee shop ... may not be happy to be there but they have jobs the real person who's getting here are the people who use to get those jobs and are now losing out and getting pushed further down the ladder and ultimately in many cases getting pushed thousands of dollars in Ireland with the body's this with that the entities into at least a college degree for what we do know is that is a college graduates not only are more likely to get jobs but they tend to get paid better and to get promoted more quickly even when they are in jobs that are traditionally college degree to offset that since it was awesome so it's a message here that people should still go Oil College's to Cut sorry I didn't try to keep the long stem the flow seeking ... to Get Berry Patent only does this this idea that of course you know we we try Nepalese people and it was still plenty of jobs the people that sickly same height as well ... and now I've those those jobs on their what what's actually happened so the assumption here that included the argument here is basically that during the nineties eighties and nineties he had this big runup in ... demand for technology ... lots of companies needing to hire highly skilled jobs of course young people responded they went to college they went and got those kinds of skills ... we started talking for a long time as if the assumption is that those that demand will just continue to grow and that it seems like this and what may have happened is that demand peaked in two thousand and is ... the little bit since then meanwhile people people going to school they keep on giving those degrees and kind of end up with this oversupply of these highly skilled workers ... that can turn around eventually ... if we get new technologies that decreed New Investment new demand is not something I would just run around with the economy something more fundamental ... than a painful problem for a lot of people